Raspberry Pi 3 received support Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

The Raspberry Pi Foundation, which develops cheap single -pay microcomputers, announced the Raspberry Pi 3 computer, which received a number of improvements compared to predecessors, reports The Verge .

The main feature of the Raspberry Pi 3 is the built-in support for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, which has long been asked by users of previous versions of the microcomputer, forced to use external wireless adapters.

As for the rest of the technical characteristics of the Raspberry Pi 3, the computer received a new 64-bit quad-core processor with a frequency of 1.2 GHz. The volume of RAM of the device is still 1 GB. In general, according to the developers, the performance of the microcomputer compared with the previous generation has increased by about 50%, and now it can be considered a full replacement of the PC.

Despite technical improvements, the Raspberry Pi 3 will be sold at the same price as the previous generation. The cost of a microcomputer will be 35 US dollars.